MESF’s Dr David Tittensor was interviewed by Phillip Adams on the ABC’s Late Night Live on the deterioration of the US-Turkey relationship. Listen here.

A/Prof Ben Isakhan and PhD candidate Pete Mulherin have published new work in Australian Outlook on the Basra protests. Read the full text here.

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh published a new piece on Informed Comment on the impact that Trump’s foreign policy is having on Iranian domestic politics. Read it here.

 

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh published an OpEd in the Sydney Morning Herald on President Trump’s regime change agenda in Iran. Read it here.

 

 

MESF’s Dr Zahid Ahmed was quoted in an article “China And Pakistan Plan To Get Rich Together. The Price? Human Rights” published by Huffington Post. Read it here.

Professor Shahram and Dr Rebecca’s book “Human Rights and Agents of Change in Iran: Towards a Theory of Change” is now available online. Check access here.

MESF’s Ben Isakhan, Zahid Ahmed, David Tittensor, and Tezcan Gümüş are at IPSA this week. We wish them all the best.

The MESF team has put together a guide of the Middle East politics papers scheduled for IPSA next week. Read it here.

MESF’s Dr Niamat Ibrahimi graduated from ANU’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs last week. Many congratulations to Niamat!

MESF’s Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, A/Prof Ben Isakhan and Dr Dara Conduit are all presenting their research at the World Congress of Middle East Studies (WOCMES) conference in Seville this week.